Annual report of the city of Somerville (1881) (14765045204)

Identifier: annualreportofci1881some (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the city of Somerville
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Somerville (Mass.)
Subjects: Somerville (Mass.)
Publisher: Somerville, Mass.
Contributing Library: Somerville Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners



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219 APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND EXPENDI-TURES THEREFROM, 1881. Appropriation, $2,800 00 Expended: — For collecting ashes, offal, * bur3ing dead animals, fumigating, * sulphur, vaccine virus, serving notices, books, printing, stationery, postage, and advertising, carriage hire, *^ labor, salary of inspector, clerk, 2,519 60 Balance unexpended, $280 40 $1,185 70 500 00 17 50 111 00 2 69 2 00 4 16 87 80 5 00 3 75 500 00 100 00 REGULATIONS. The following is a copj^ of Sect. 5 of Chap. 26 of the GeneralStatutes, relating to boards of health, and authorizing such boardsto make sanitary regulations : — ** The board shall make such regulations as it judges necessaryfor the public health and safety, respecting nuisances, sources offilth, and causes of sickness, within its town, or on board of ves-sels within its harbor; and respecting articles which are capable ofcontaining or conveying infection or contagion, or of creatingsickness brought into or conve3ed from its town, or in